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And Gives Notice That He Will Dis
cuss the Document After the
= Holiday Recess.
A Resolution by Senator Pugh Stat
ing That the Tariff Question
is All Important.
Favorable Report on the Senate Edu-
catiOnal Bill-PrOtectiOn of
Natural Forests.
CONGRESSIONAL,
The Senate.

WASHINGTON, Dec 19.-In the senate to-
day the report of Treasury Agent Tingle
on Alaska seal fisheries was received.
Mr.. Blair made a favorable and unani-
nous report from the committee on educa-
ton and labor on the educational bill.
Mr.. Palmer introduced bill to provide
for the suppression of contagious diseases
of cattle and to facilitate transportation of
live stock; also memorial of the constitu-
asking admission into the union as state
Mr.. McCullom introduced a bill to annex
portion Of Montana to Idaho.
Mr.. Sherman moved that the presidents
message and accompanying documents be
referred to the committee on finance and
gave notice that after the holidays he
would address the senate on the sub
ject.
DISCUSSING THE TARIFF LAWS.
Mr.. Pugh offered the following resolu-
ton and proceeded to address the senate
in support of it:
Resolved, That the most important and
pressing duty of the present session of con-
gresS is to revise and so amend the exist
ing internal tax and tariff laws as to re-
duce the annual revenues to be collected
therefrom to the necessary wants of the
federal government and no more than it
needs to pay its matured debts and dis
charge its obligations under the laws Of
congress without crippling or deranging
any American industries or business or in
terest concerned with the subjects OF tariff
taxation or interfering with the just rights
of the American working people intended
to be secured to them by the incidental ef-
fects of reYenue duties to share in the
joint produS of the labor and capital en-
plOyed in American mining and manufac-
turing industries to the full measures of
the difference in the cost of their labor and
the labor of those employed in similar in
Resolved, That the senate will concur in
NO joint resolution in the final adjourn
ment of the present session Of congress
until such remedy is made.
He declared that as general compro-
mise he would repeal the internal tax on
tobacco for the sole reason that tobacco
was an agricultural product and let the
tax on whisky stand for future considera-
no duty on any article manufactured in
the United States that would cripple any
! home Industry or impair the ability of
home competition.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2O.-In the senate
messages we're received from the presi-
dent transmitting invitations to send rep
resentatives to the international exposi-
ton of labor at Barcelona in April next
and the Melbourne exposition next year.
Senator Davis reported bills to grant
pensions of $4,000 to the widows of Gen.
John A. Logan and Frank P. Blair.
Senator Call renewed his motion to print
in the Record the memorial of the Utah
constitutional convention. Mr.. Edmunds
preferred that the resolution be referred to
the committee on territories, which now
has jurisdiction. Mr.. Call argued that 1t
was due to community of 100000 people
to have its views fairly presented. He un-
derstood that less than 8 per cent. of these
people were guilty of practices on the as
sumption of which the objection of the
senator from Vermont was based
Mr.. Edmunds replied to Mr.. Call
with some asperity. After considerable
discussion, Mr.. Call withdrew his resolu-
tion, as he had attained its object in read
ing the Utah memorial himself.
MIR. Blair then moved to take up his edu-
cational bill and the motion was agreed
to-ayes 81, nays 15. Without further &C.
tion the senate proceeded to executive
business.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-In the senate to
day Mr.. Sherman reported bill to restrict
the ownership of lands In the territories by
I foreigners.
A resolution providing for committee
OF Ave senators to investigate the condition